Re: settle a dispute: prop bet involved
 

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This is a decent thread idea. Everyone has an opinion, it's meaningless but kinda funny. What more do you want?

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This is far more important and far ranging that the average OOT post.

Re: settle a dispute: prop bet involved
 

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he loses at 8:00:01

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Re: settle a dispute: prop bet involved
 

to the 8:00:01 contingent, consider this:

if you said to a prospective employer you'd show up at an interview at "8p sharp," according to your logic you'd be violating that statement even if you showed up at 7:59:59, as well as if you showed at 8:00:01.

the obvious, logical, and common-sensical interpretation of "8p sharp" is that you'd be late by 8:01.

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the obvious, logical, and common-sensical interpretation of "8p sharp" is that you'd be late by 8:01.

The obvious, logical and common-sensical conclusion is that when 8:00:00:00000000000000000 rolls around, you're there.

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so you are assuming perfectly synchronized clocks/watches? at least synchronized to the second? wouldn't it be far more reasonable to expect synchronization to the minute?

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this is a very good point - if I had to be somewhere at 8pm sharp then I'd assume that I'd have as long as the watch says 8:00 to get there

I now agree with you

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he loses at 8:01:00 surely you cant have a super exact acurate time to the last milisecond.

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Agreed.

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the obvious, logical, and common-sensical interpretation of "8p sharp" is that you'd be late by 8:01.

The obvious, logical and common-sensical conclusion is that when 8:00:00:00000000000000000 rolls around, you're there.

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Quoted for blazingly obvious correct-ness.

Mikeech - pay your friend his money.

-Al

Re: settle a dispute: prop bet involved
 

There is a time-tested solution here that allows for a fudge factor. Anyone read Around the World in Eighty Days?

Get a grandfather clock. When it stops tolling, the bet has been lost. If you bet for 1pm instead of 9pm, tough nuggets.

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to the 8:00:01 contingent, consider this:

if you said to a prospective employer you'd show up at an interview at "8p sharp," according to your logic you'd be violating that statement even if you showed up at 7:59:59, as well as if you showed at 8:00:01.

the obvious, logical, and common-sensical interpretation of "8p sharp" is that you'd be late by 8:01.

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If you told me, as your prospective employer that you would be there by 8P sharp, and I looked up at a clock with a time that started with 8, you'd better be in the chair already.

Re: settle a dispute: prop bet involved
 

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to the 8:00:01 contingent, consider this:

if you said to a prospective employer you'd show up at an interview at "8p sharp," according to your logic you'd be violating that statement even if you showed up at 7:59:59, as well as if you showed at 8:00:01.

the obvious, logical, and common-sensical interpretation of "8p sharp" is that you'd be late by 8:01.

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If you told me, as your prospective employer that you would be there by 8P sharp, and I looked up at a clock with a time that started with 8, you'd better be in the chair already.

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Best point so far.